# Replication Instructions for
# Recipes and Economic Growth: A Combinatorial March Down an Exponential Tail
# Charles I. Jones
# October 2022


## INSTRUCTIONS:

 * TLDR: Run MasterProgram.m in Matlab

 * All quantitative results (i.e. Figures 1 to 4) are generated by running MasterProgram.m in Matlab (R2021a)

 * All files are small other than patent_cpc_grant_date_raw.csv (1.6GB)
    - This file is from Kelly et al (2021) and is used to generate Figure 3
    - Comment out the relevant line from MasterProgram.m if you want to run w/o that file.

## Figures
 * Figure 1: Patents Granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
    - patents.eps
 * Figure 2: Breakthrough Patents from Kelly et al (2021)
    - kpst_breakthrough.eps
 * Figure 3: U.S. Patent Growth by Technology Class, 1950–1990
    - PatentFigures_Growth1990.eps
 * Figure 4: Annual Academic Publication Counts, 1970–2020
    - PublicationCounts.eps

